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A town mayor — who happens to be a miniature Shetland pony — has been effectively barred from his local pub over a planning row. Councillors in Cockington, a village in south-east England, made Patrick the pony their honorary mayor in a widely-publicised ceremony last month.

Bancon Group has bounced back from the pandemic with a 1,250% boost to pre-tax profits, rising from £200,000 to £2.7 million in the latest financial year. The Aberdeenshire housebuilder and construction group saw its turnover rise by £40 million on the previous year to reach £

Morris & Spottiswood is celebrating after landing two internationally-recognised awards for demonstrating high health and safety standards. Morris & Spottiswood Scotland has received a RoSPA Gold Medal (five consecutive Golds) Award, and Morris & Spottiswood England a RoSPA Gold Health a

Aberdeen City Council has submitted a £20 million bid for plans to rejuvenate the beach area to the UK government’s Levelling Up Fund 2.

A housebuilder has said energy companies are becoming increasingly reluctant to fit meters in new homes, leading to delays in putting them to use. Stephen Kemp, managing director of Orkney Builders, told BBC News that tenants cannot yet move into homes delivered as the first phase of a social housin

A formal planning application has now been submitted to West Lothian Council to create a major new park on the site of the historic Winchburgh Brickworks.

David Wilson Homes, part of Barratt Developments, is seeking sub-contractors from across Fife to help deliver a new 342-home development in Craigtoun, St Andrews. Work will soon commence at the David Wilson Homes site, which sits close to Younger Gardens in the south-east of the Fife town. The new c

Pre-construction work has started on Taylor Wimpey East Scotland's development of 134 new homes at its Farrier Fields development in Edinburgh.

Timber expert Donaldson Group has appointed Steve Galbraith as managing director of two of its merchant retail and distribution subsidiary businesses. Mr Galbraith will take on the management of independent timber merchant MGM Timber and insulation material and specialist building product supplier J

Applicant: CA Yeaman (Edinburgh) Property Owner Limited. Planning Authority: Edinburgh

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has confirmed that construction of new homes at its new Letham Meadows development near Haddington has now started.

Kirkwood Timber Frame has strengthened its ties with Aberdeen-based haulage and logistics service provider Dyce Carriers Ltd and appointed it sole logistics partner. The move enables Kirkwood Timber Frame to deliver its timber frame kits to more sites across Scotland and meet the growing demand from

Proposals for all new buildings to be fitted with climate-friendly alternatives to fossil fuel heating systems have been published. The New Build Heat Standard Part II consultation sets out plans that would mean direct emissions heating systems (DEH), such as those run on fossil fuel, would no longe

Independent timber merchant MGM Timber Ltd is sponsoring middleweight boxer Sam Hickey for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Since 2019, MGM Timber’s Dundee branch – subsidiary of the Donaldson Group – has provided financial assistance to support Sam’s training sessions

A reforestation company has apologised after inadvertently starting a wildfire that destroyed at least 14,000 hectares of forest.